“I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”

— Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

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British painter and engraver 1922–2011

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